Buy the Mat Once. Not Seven Times.

A procurement view of Big Bad Mats as a longer-horizon ROI asset — spreading cost across far more deployments and years than fast-deteriorating budget mats, for the lowest effective cost per use.

43%

Lower cost / use

7×

Budget re-buys

~6y

Break-even

$1,600

Saved / mat

Cumulative Cost of Ownership · per mat

Budget mats look cheaper on day one — then re-buy on every deterioration cycle. Big Bad Mats stays a single flat line.

Budget / low-quality mats Big Bad Mats

Effective Cost per Deployment — purchase price spread across every reuse

Budget mats$42/use

Big Bad Mats$24/use

Metric

Budget

Big Bad

Unit purchase price

$500

$1,900

Service life

1.5 yrs

10+ yrs

Deployments / life

~12

~80

Re-buys / 10 yrs

7×

1×

10-yr spend / mat

$3,500

$1,900

Cost / deployment

$42

$24

Fleet Impact · 200 mats · 10-yr horizon

The absolute ROI of buying quality once.

Budget spend

$700,000

Big Bad spend

$380,000

10-yr savings

$320,000

Excludes downtime, machine recovery, and site-restoration costs that budget mats incur far more often — widening the real gap further.

Illustrative unit-economics model — $500 budget mat (1.5-yr life) vs $1,900 Big Bad Mats over 10 yrs at ~8 deployments/yr. Actual figures vary by site, utilization & handling. Not a quote, guarantee, or warranty of any specific result; provided for evaluation only and not financial, engineering, or legal advice. © 2026 OneHarvest LLC.

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(713) 725-7413 · kyle@oneharvestco.com

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